As Day 2 of the BART strike drags on, I have accepted that walking or biking to work are my best options, especially since SF Muni has been impacted far more than I could have anticipated. But I am lucky to live in the FiDi-friendly SoMa neighborhood where a 20-minute walk is easy to fold into my routine. Others have not been so lucky, especially those traveling from the East Bay.

With the negotiators from BART management and the union far apart with their expectations at the moment, most Bay Area offices have had to make alternate arrangements and exceptions for their employees who are location-challenged.

When we asked our social community how they were dealing with this wrench in their commute routine, we got a range of answers. The most common solution in our tech-centric environment was telecommuting.

Telecommute

In the BYOD world we live in, many employees are able to email, share-files and work anywhere they can get a Wi-Fi connection. That could be their home, a nearby coffee shop, co-working spaces or lounges.

There are also companies that are taking advantage of conferencing and video services — from Google+ Hangouts to Skype. Companies such as Blue Jeans Network have folded the strike into their 14-day free trial package with their transit strike offer: bluejeans.com/transit-strike.

Alternate transportation

From carpools and ferry rides to car shares and helicopter rides, there are plenty of options in the Bay Area to get from the home to the office — depending on what works best for your commute.

Taxi alternative services such as Lyft and Uber aren’t the only transportation players looking at the BART Strike as a boon to business. Irish ridesharing company Avego snagged the domain bartstrike.com to promote its business in a time of strife. As a way to promote its carpooling app, the company is giving away free helicopter rides during the strike — winners are chosen at random if you use the app.

“We were looking for a really visual way for people to understand the difference between being stuck in highway traffic like a turkey and flying by in the HOV lane like an eagle," said Avego CEOSean O’Sullivan on the new BART strike website. "Be an eagle, not a turkey.”

Alternate sleeping arrangements

As it stands, Airbnb and other services allowing people to rent rooms and extra apartments still have a lot of inventory available if that alternative is within reach — though most people may not be able to expense that particular charge.

And for those of you, like me, who happen to live in the city and near some of the biggest business hubs, you have probably already been offered beer and dinner from East Bay friends who want to occupy your couch until further notice.

I expect a lot of free dinners to come from this BART debacle.

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